News & Events

07/10/2014

From budgeting practices to examining financial accounting practices and EPSAS: The CEFG Group on its way to the harmonisation of public sector finances.

Dedicated to creating a space for mutual learning in the field of economic and financial governance, the City Council of Barcelona initiated a high-level strategic partnership together with the cities of Dublin (IE), Hamburg (DE), London (UK), Milan (IT) and Vienna (AT) – the “City Economic and Financial Governance Group (CEFG Group)”. This group unites larger European cities that aim at a different way of doing politics – politics that are committed to quality management, sustainability and liquidity of public sector finances as guarantors of Europe’s economic competitiveness, its social policies and thus ultimately the wellbeing of their citizens.

This timely initiative is managed by EIPA and supported by the European Commission –Eurostat – as it coincides with their efforts to formulate the ESA and EPSAS and to implement them across the EU. Read more

The second meeting of the CEFG Group will take place on 17-18 November in Barcelona under the topic of ‘financial accounting practices and EPSAS’

What is the European Public Sector Award (EPSA)?

The EPSA brings together the
best, most innovative and
efficient performers from the
European public sector.
Outstanding administrative
performances are, after all,
produced under different
conditions within Europe.
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Publications

This book aims to demonstrate that various creative and smart routes to excellent solutions are possible, by analysing success stories in different areas of local public management from seven European cities in the EPSA scheme – Bilbao (ES), Birmingham (UK), Mannheim (DE), Milan (IT), Tallinn (EE), Tampere (FI), and Trondheim (NO). It concludes by presenting seven steps leading to excellence. The only thing left to find out is: are other cities ready to take on the challenge?

What kind of ideas are behind the remodelling of the state and public sector, and how have these ideas materialized in practice? In this book the authors illustrate what are the driving forces behind the huge amount of public management reforms over the last three decades. Trends and ideas of public management reforms in practice are validated by data from European Public Sector Award cases (2009 and 2011).

The EPSA brings together the best, most innovative and efficient performers from the European public sector. Outstanding administrative
performances are, after all, produced under different conditions within Europe.